Red Alert 1895

Chapter 317: banknotes

Soon, two days later, the first expedited banknotes were printed. At this time, Wang Guorui immediately announced that banknotes will be introduced in Taiwan in the future, and that each dollar of Taiwan banknotes will contain one gram of gold, and Taiwan will gradually implement banknotes in the future. As for the next step, Taiwan will continue to issue banknotes, and the deposits in those banks will be converted into banknotes at the price of gold and silver in the future, so that banknotes can be promoted to everyone. Moreover, it is also stipulated that you must accumulate 50,000 yuan before you can exchange for gold, and the exchange of gold must go through a complicated review before you can exchange for gold nuggets, and then the gold nuggets cannot be taken out of Taiwan. And this is tantamount to Wang Guorui using the power of the government to increase the obstacles to the exchange of gold.

"Why is it paper money? We also use paper money in Taiwan, don't we use silver taels?" asked a local tyrant.

"Yes, sir, we have issued banknotes in Taiwan. In the future, our bank deposits will be exchanged for equivalent banknotes according to the price of gold and silver. After that, everyone can use banknotes for consumption. It will not be Is it much more convenient?" said the waitress at the bank.

But some people still hesitated and said: "This banknote, shouldn't it be the same as the banknotes handed over in the past?"

After all, China has been hurt too deeply by the delivery of banknotes, so it is impossible to solve the doubts about banknotes for a while. After all, many people know the harm caused by the excessive issuance of banknotes by the national government. And now if paper money is still issued indiscriminately like this, I am afraid that they will all face a very dangerous situation. So this banknote is credit. If there is an accident, the wealth of the common people will be exploited. And then, the common people started to talk about it one after another, obviously they didn't quite believe in this banknote.

but. Wang Guorui has already made preparations, that is, to win the trust of the people, he must first do it himself.

"Master Wang has ordered that from now on, the salaries of civil servants in the Taiwan government will be settled in banknotes, and the wages of Taiwan government employees will also be in banknotes from now on!"

"Oh? If the civil servants of the Taiwan government also use banknotes, then this will be credible!" "Yes! If the officials of the imperial court also use banknotes. This is normal." "Hmph, the original banknotes. The court officials don’t use it themselves, but they still want us to use it. Isn’t this exploiting the people?” “Yes! If the court itself doesn’t recognize it, then why should we use it!”…

"In Taiwan, in the future, we can use banknotes to pay taxes. In the future, we will only accept banknotes and not other things. If we pay taxes with silver and gold, we will deduct 10% of the tax. Fire consumption, and then the remaining is considered as tax payment. And banknotes do not need to deduct fire consumption, one yuan counts as one yuan!"

"Oh? Can banknotes be used to pay taxes?" "This is the real stable currency!" "Also, if you pay taxes with gold and silver, you have to deduct one-tenth of the fire consumption, which is really a big loss." Send it. Pay 10% more tax. Are we out of our minds?" "Quickly ask your subordinates to convert the silver that is going to pay the tax into banknotes, and then use it to pay the tax."...

Taiwan, on the other hand, allows the use of banknotes to pay taxes. That can be said to have stabilized the hearts of the people and stabilized the reputation of banknotes. You must know that the Jiaozi in the Song Dynasty and the banknotes in the Ming Dynasty were allowed to pay taxes at the beginning, but later the imperial court issued banknotes indiscriminately, and finally the court actually stipulated that the banknotes were not allowed to be used for tax payment. However, the imperial court used banknotes to force the purchase of goods from the common people. But people are not allowed to use it to pay taxes. This is simply destroying the credibility of paper money. It is conceivable how much the people hate this banknote. The reputation of banknotes has completely become a piece of **** paper.

And Taiwan stipulates that this banknote can be used to pay taxes, which is equivalent to the country recognizing the value of this banknote, acknowledging that this banknote has gold content, and is equivalent to precious metal currency. And those banknotes, which are used by the court to exploit the people, will not be regarded as money by the court at all. It is conceivable that there is a difference here, and Taiwan can agree to use it to pay taxes, which means that it is of great significance to stabilize the value of the currency, and everything can be used to pay taxes in the future. It means that the government recognizes this banknote, and the people will also recognize this banknote.

"Taiwan Governor's Office announced that if you can take 50,000 yuan banknotes to the Bank of Taiwan, you can exchange them for 50 kilograms of gold bullion."

"What? Can this be exchanged for gold?" "Yes! If it can be exchanged for gold, then that's not bad." "Yes, if it can be exchanged for gold, then this money is indeed valuable, not those who hand in the money comparable."

"But, why do you have to start at 50,000 yuan to be able to exchange? Can't you just exchange it?"

At this time, the service lady at the bank immediately said: "Sir, this question is actually very simple, because if gold can be exchanged at any time, there will be countless people who will come to exchange gold, and how much more work will our bank have to do? The people in the bank are probably too busy to exchange gold every day. And if there is no gold in a place at that time, they must contact the Central Bank in Taipei before they can send it over. Sometimes for some gold that weighs a few grams Gold travels thousands of miles, isn't it a waste of resources? Therefore, in order to prevent this random exchange of gold and increase the workload of bank staff, we must stipulate that 50,000 yuan must be enough to exchange, and we must also get We come to Taipei to exchange, so that we can save a lot of human resources of the government!"

Hearing this "seemingly reasonable" answer, this also made everyone feel silently nodding. Because in China, ordinary people rarely have the idea of ​​troublesome government. Ordinary people are rarely willing to deal with the government for a long time, and few of them will bother the government's manpower and material resources just for these few grams of gold. After all, the ancient people were still very simple, unwilling or afraid to entertain government officials casually. In the eyes of ordinary people, this bank is actually a government agency, and this is what makes them not want to bother the bank staff. So ordinary people can already understand, after all, it saves manpower and material resources!

Of course, Taiwan's so-called "policy" has actually violated the traditional gold standard system of being convertible at any time, and Taiwan's so-called "policy" seems to be to save manpower and material resources. But in fact, it has established a separate gold standard system on its own, instead of adopting the mature gold coin standard system in the West. For ordinary people, they don't know the difference in the gold standard system, and they do understand that government officials should not be entertained at will, so it is understandable to accumulate a certain amount of currency for exchange.

Let alone 50,000 yuan, the 50,000 yuan at this time is not the 50,000 yuan of later generations, and the 50,000 yuan at this time is equivalent to tens of millions of future generations. And such a sum of money, anyone can take it out. Therefore, there are very few people who can exchange it. In addition, as long as Wang Guorui passes the review barrier, there are not many people who can really exchange it. And if someone has 50,000 yuan, he must continue to invest or buy things by himself. How can he exchange some gold that cannot be eaten or drunk? And after exchanging for gold, no one in the market is willing to accept that you continue to use gold to buy goods! Because it costs more to pay taxes with gold, you have to accept 10% fire consumption, which is super cheating fire consumption, so no one is willing to directly accept selling items as currency.

"Of course, in order to win the trust of the people, our central bank will open our vaults, and then let everyone see how our vaults can store funds."

Soon, a group of people were brought to an exhibition hall of the central bank, and then there was a layer of glass, and behind the glass were all glittering gold. And all of this shocked countless people. Because these are pieces of gold, these are pieces of glittering gold!

"Gentlemen, today is the first day we implement the gold standard for banknotes. We will give you a free tour. But you can only visit through the glass~www.readwn.com~ If you want to go in and visit, you must have a certain Conditions. In the future, we will only receive 50 people who can enter the vault to visit, and after entering the vault, they must go through a body search to avoid gold. So, please understand. If anyone wants to go in and come out with gold Even a close contact can have fifty lucky ones to visit."

And those self-proclaimed local tyrants also felt terrified when they saw so much gold.

"This is probably more than 200,000 taels?" Someone exclaimed.

"Yes! I'm afraid it's no less than 200,000 taels!" "Yes! With so much gold, what can we worry about?" "Yes! We can rest assured that there is no need to worry about so much gold. Governor Wang cannot deliver, our money is safe."

And when the common people saw such gold, they were immediately relieved. After all, Taiwan has enough gold reserves for them to see, so why do they worry about it? This means that there are pictures and the truth, and they can see it so directly, of course they are very relieved. With so much gold in front of me, even some people can go in and see for themselves, feel the weight of gold, this is really reassuring. And so much gold is really the best way to make people feel at ease about the banknotes issued in Taiwan. (to be continued)

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